Spike VGA 2008 - Reactions?

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I only enjoyed the first act (Jack Black and his diaper song). I thought last year's was better, excluding world premieres.
 
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the doogie bit was funny ( shows you how they slapped this thing together without any real effort and it shows) but the whoe thing could be done in 20 or so minutes since all anyone wants to see is the game footage. jack black is still one of the worlds most overrated and annoying people ever.
 
fucking ridiculously lame and Spike should be stopped.

The only reason I sat around was because I was waiting for the Brütal Legend trailer. Wouldn't you know that'd be the last thing they'd show, making me sit through all the other shit.
 
[quote name='CoffeeEdge']fucking ridiculously lame and Spike should be stopped.

The only reason I sat around was because I was waiting for the Brütal Legend trailer. Wouldn't you know that'd be the last thing they'd show, making me sit through all the other shit.[/quote]
I tuned out after the GoWIII trailer was shown, only 20 minutes in!
 
It was more entertaining than I thought it would be. I mainly watched for the Uncharted 2 trailer, but I actually was entertained during most of the show.

Had to change the channel though when "fiddy" showed up.
 
It was a show dominated by adverts, nonsense, awful attempts at humor (which failed miserably), and everything else that is the quintessential reminder as to how painfully low the bar is for video game showcases.

All of the "exclusive world premiere" footage was short, hardly representative of the game in question, and at the end of the day annoying as shit. Did we -need- another teaser for God of War III? Even the Brutal Legend trailer that I've waited for did not manage to satisfy, least of all in light of the awful rest of the show. We tivo-ed it up, fast forwarded through most advertisements, and through as much of the bullshit as we could, and we still hated every moment of this bullshit.

Spike TV can suck my balls.

Brutal Legend will still rock your body, though.
 
It was pretty bad. Layton winning Handheld GOTY without TWEWY as a nominee really pissed me off. Don't get me wrong, I like Layton, but it can't hold a candle to TWEWY.

GTAIV as GOTY, we all knew it'd happen. Spike always seems like it picks the winner for this thing, not the gamers or judges who pick the games. GTAIV is pretty bad in terms of what GOTY material is.

Trailers: GOW3 does look pretty good, but I think Uncharted beat it. Mafia II is definitely the best trailer because it was the longest trailer and the most surprising of the bunch. Watchman, to me = Flamboyant Batman. There, I said it.
 
[quote name='MarkMan']Also...


Worth it for Megan fuckin Fox....[/quote]
I Like my women like I like my robots, soulless!
 
[quote name='bardockkun']I Like my women like I like my robots, soulless![/quote]


:rofl:

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I missed it. Not that I intended to watch. However, I had mild interest in partaking in the Joystiq live blog covering the event. Fortunately, I played games instead of watching announcements I read about on Joystiq. ;)



P.S. Brutal Legend looks uninspired. :whistle2:(
 
I hate modern day award shows , only the winners show up .
It's pretty much "hey you should come to our awards because you won" .

It makes any award show hard to watch , when the presenters are just there to pimp their latest thing they have going .

In the old days the nominees [remeber they would come] and past winners used to present and give out the awards .

I still want Brutal Legend though .
 
[quote name='CoffeeEdge']I get the feeling you don't know what Watchmen is.[/quote]

:applause:

The movie will be spectacular.
 
[quote name='QiG']:applause:

The movie will be spectacular.[/quote]

Well the comic was spectacular. The game looked craptacular and I bet they destroy the story in the movie :cry:
 
[quote name='blackflag']...and I bet they destroy the story in the movie :cry:[/QUOTE]

I don't think it's fair to call it like that yet. From what I've seen and heard, I don't think anyone has tried so hard to make a comic book movie so true to the source material since Sin City.
 
I don't know why people watch for the "OMG EPIC PREMIER!" I would just wait until it goes up on gametrailers like 5 mins after it happens.

That shit is beyond awful, and its why video games are not taken seriously.
 
[quote name='CoffeeEdge']I don't think it's fair to call it like that yet. From what I've seen and heard, I don't think anyone has tried so hard to make a comic book movie so true to the source material since Sin City.[/quote]

Dude, you been following the production? The pirate tale is cut out from the theatrical cut completely, a 3D animated version of it will be delivered separately (that is, NOT as a counterpoint to the main storyline but as a separate meaningless entity) on the DVD release...

...AND there are fairly substantial rumors about them changing the ending of the thing completely.

Now, this thread is about Spike VGAs, and I guess I'll just reinstate that they blew. Watchmen is one of my all-time favorite comics, and I am willing to bet that the film will blow. 300 showed neither the class, style, nor the brains necessary to make The Watchmen. It did have a shit-ton of spectacular visuals - which in Moore's comics is almost never enough.
 
What the hell are you guys talking about? This was THE best awards show ever!!!

Nothing will ever top UFC fighters being back-up dancers to LL Cool J or 99.9% of all the announcers clearly reading from a projection screen and showing ZERO enthusiasm in all their introductions.

Nothing will ever top this specatacle, NOTHING!
 
[quote name='MarioColbert']Dude, you been following the production? The pirate tale is cut out from the theatrical cut completely,[/quote]

Every single novel and comic book adaptation in history has omitted and changed things from the source material. The movie is already going to be nearly three hours long. There is simply no room for the Black Freighter story. And you know what? It's not really necessary. At all.

Look, I know it was really creative and innovative back in the comics world of 1986 to have some sort of "parallels" gimmick in pretty much every damn panel,
be it the TV narrator so high-lariously narrating Dan and Laurie's attempt to get it on, the dialogue of Billy Anger's interview with Dr Manhattan perfectly suiting Dan and Laurie's first fight together with the muggers in the alley, or the endless and ridiculously literal double entendres (Laurie saying "You don't want to go diving head first into things" after Rorschach presumably offed Big Figure in a toilet bowl! How clever!)
, but that isn't necessary in a motion picture in 2008.

What else do you want? Do you want the movie to include to the textbook sections verbatim, as well, and have the audience sit there and read Under the Hood and Blood from the Shoulder of Pallas?

It's all great in the comic, but it simply wouldn't work for a theatrical movie.

a 3D animated version of it will be delivered separately (that is, NOT as a counterpoint to the main storyline but as a separate meaningless entity) on the DVD release...
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First off, it's my understanding that it'll be hand-drawn, possibly anime-style. And they've already talked about a 3+ hour DVD with Black Freighter edited back into the main feature, which would seem to imply that it will be taking up the same role it did in the comic.

...AND there are fairly substantial rumors about them changing the ending of the thing completely.
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We'll see, won't we? And even if they do, remember, this is not Watchmen, the comic book. It's Watchmen, the movie.

300 showed neither the class, style, nor the brains necessary to make The Watchmen.
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Fine. But I doubt anyone saw it coming that the guy responsible for Dead Alive would be making Lord of the Rings less than a decade later, or that the dude who directed Madonna's Vogue video and the shit-fest that was Alien 3 in 1992 would have directed Se7en, The Game, and Fight Club before decade was out, and would by 2008 have directed The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.


You're displaying the typical attitude of a die-hard comic/book/whatever fan who won't be satisfied with a film adaptation unless it completely tosses the vastly different requirements and conventions of a motion picture aside, and somehow manages to stay accurate to every letter and penstroke of the original, not omitting a single word, character, idea, or event. I take it the Lord of the Rings movies has you pulling your hair out in the theater. That attitude will keep you from enjoying the movies, and for your own sake, I hope you can get over it, to enjoy the medium on it's own merits.
 
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Great, a conceited and aloof post from Myke. What a shocker,
just like when Rorschach killed Big Figure's goon, amirite. Ba dum tsch.

I must say, myke, you're really insightful and quite adept at comic observation. Your technique of implying that a set of statements were made in a fit of rage, when there is practically nothing in the language itself to suggest as such, is something really new in the field of internet intellectualism, and I look forward to see more such enlightening and inspiring observations from you in the future.

Actually, no, you have AIDS.

And now he will lean back and put another mark on his "PEOPLE I TOTALLY SERVED ONLINE" chalkboard and wait for his groupies to start sucking his cyberdick. Clockwork. Clockwork. Just look at his signature for crying out loud. He feels the need to see that at the end of every damn post. Ugh.
 
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I have groupies? Zounds. 'Tis the tradeoff for AIDS, n'cest pas?

I was just kinda hoping you all would stay on topic. I have hope you will do so one day.

One day.
 
[quote name='mykevermin']I was just kinda hoping you all would stay on topic. I have hope you will do so one day.[/QUOTE]

Oh, now I see what this is about.

No, you're never going to be a mod.


But yeah, let's get back to our totally civil discussions about what bullshit the VGAs are.
 
The whole show was better than previous years IMO. They had a few entertaining pieces. Although, a lot of stuff (Neil Patrick Harris bit most notable) was pretty damn lame. Most of the exclusive trailers were disappointing too. I think the Brutal Legend one was probably the best and most revealing of the bunch.

I feel bad for making my girlfriend sit through this though.
 
There are currently 3 most pay attention events for hardcore gamers. GDC, E3 and the Tokyo Game Show. The Video Game Awards on spike could easily be the 4th event but they need to do a lot of things. First they need to partner with the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (they have their own awards but its not televised and is in las vegas). That would be a real awards show with real judges. You need to actually give out more awards than 4 over a 2 hour period and stop the whole commercialization of video games ... powered by dew, sponsored by burger king. We don't care so much about all the previews ... its fun to show a few as filler but seriously ... ugh ... i want to actually see who is getting an award

and for god sake get rid of that monkey award thing ...
 
[quote name='blackflag']Well the comic was spectacular. The game looked craptacular and I bet they destroy the story in the movie :cry:[/quote]

Touche.. I didn't know it was a game we were talking about. I have high hopes for the movie considering they've gotten comic book movies right the past few years (save for Superman Returns)
 
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